I have revised my New Year\u2019s Resolution. Already. I mentioned this to my husband, and he said, \u201cIt\u2019s good to give up sometimes.\u201d But, I argued, it\u2019s not giving up. It\u2019s changing my focus as a result of better information.<\/p>\n
My big plan was to make myself stop eating cold cereal\u2014any <\/i>cold cereal. This is because cold cereal has traditionally been my nemesis, causing me to grab great handfuls of it every time I walk past the closet where I keep it. It’s been my go-to writing fuel.<\/p>\n
What I thought<\/i> would happen was that cutting it out of my diet would dramatically decrease the calorie intake of my day. I mean, it\u2019s kind of possible I was getting 1\/3 of my calories from it. I know, yikes.<\/p>\n
But what did <\/i>happen was that I replaced the snack of the relatively low calorie, air-filled sweet, grain-based snack with\u2026delicious muenster cheese. And pecans. And peanuts, delicious peanuts. These<\/i> are not low calorie foods. And for some reason, I was eating the same quantity of these foods as I was eating cold cereal.<\/p>\n
This did not produce a desirable effect.<\/p>\n
And so, with better information, I am abandoning my ill-conceived goal of removing my favorite food from my life and re-entrhoning it as a staple in the snack kingdom.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, today is going to be a great day. My daughter is getting baptized. Such a sweet girl and wonderful daughter. Family and friends are coming. It\u2019s bliss. Cold cereal for everyone!<\/p>\n\n
I have revised my New Year\u2019s Resolution. Already. I mentioned this to my husband, and he said, \u201cIt\u2019s good to give up sometimes.\u201d But, I argued, it\u2019s not giving up. It\u2019s changing my focus as a result of better information. My big plan was to make myself stop eating cold cereal\u2014any cold cereal. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[303],"tags":[346,82,348,347],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-2","tag-cold-cereal","tag-family","tag-goals","tag-new-years-resolutions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OUjT-9G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}